For thus hath the Lord of hosts said To the Chaldeans: God would have the Jews to know, that they have not so much to do with the Chaldeans as with him; that they are his rod to scourge them for their sins. And thus God is said to hiss for, or hist, those whom he would employ in such work, Isaiah 5:26; Isaiah 7:18. And he styles himself the Lord of hosts, to show that it is in vain to contend in battle with them whom he sent forth, and would be, as it were, the captain of their hosts. Hew down trees, &c. That is, to be employed in the siege: see Deuteronomy 20:19, where the same word is used as here. Cast up a mount Throw up one continued trench, as a mount, round about it. This is the city, &c. The Hebrew may be literally rendered, She is a city to be visited That is, a proper object of punishment; the reason of which follows in the next words. As a fountain casteth out her waters, &c. A metaphor, to express how natural all manner of wickedness was to her, how full she was of it, and how incessant in it. Violence and spoil is heard in her I hear the continual complaints of those that groan under the oppression that they suffer, being cruelly used and spoiled in her.
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Jeremiah 6:6-7
6 For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and castb a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.